maxproc

[Lowell Gilbert]

"master" <master at tyranz.com> writes:

> Hi all, i often get message like this in my box :
> kernel: maxproc limit exceeded by uid 5126, please see tuning(7) and
> login.conf(5)
> 
> but i doesn t understand well because the aim of login.conf is to limit
> process so why this message and what to do ?

Figure out why that user is exceeding their maxproc limit, and stop
them?

I'm working on a patch to handle this situation slightly more
elegantly, but I'm not sure that turning the message off (even for 
users hitting their self-imposed limits) is a good idea.

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